GA: Why Is One of America's Most Charter-Heavy School Districts in Rural Georgia?

Governing: Looking down the 2012-13 list of America’s most charter-school-heavy districts, the top five look familiar—high-poverty urban districts such as New Orleans, Detroit, the District of Columbia, Flint, Michigan and Kansas City, Missouri. But coming out of nowhere to claim the sixth spot in the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ annual report is a rural Georgia district of 26,000 about an hour’s drive from Atlanta.

Read article